{"conversationCode":"022-136","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":136,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-136","startDateTime":"1972-04-16T15:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-16T18:00:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1972","startTime":"10:55 AM","endDate":"16-Apr-1972","endTime":"1:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-136 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 22-136\n\nDate: April 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 329-59]\n\n     Request for call to Military Aide’s office","filename":["022-136.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:18:23","tapeEnd":"05:18:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-135","nextCode":"022-137","transcript":[{"start":1.94,"end":3.88,"text":"Can you give me the military aid's office, please?"},{"start":5.11,"end":5.42,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a direct connection to the Military Aide’s office. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical bridge to facilitate official communication between the President and his military staff. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this brief exchange.","topics":["Presidential communications","Military Aide","White House operations","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:29:26.747Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","military-aide","white-house-operations","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-136.mp3","bytes":151718,"durationSec":6.26,"bitrate":193888,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-136.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-136","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-136","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}